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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-3-2, Page 3-14 • a I 4 GREAT Every Gain a EVIITAL IVIOVEIVIE)T for Society Has Come Through Religious Movement. Text; "And In the last (Jaye I will pour cod, my spirit upon eJI flosh.'' Every day brings luteresting news Mon Wales. The whole prInelpality Is aflame. The little mountain kingdom has become 0 spectacle for .the 00110101 of all the earth, Three milliona of people have detthinined tu erst thing first—straighten ota their record a nd "get right math Cod." The movement seems to be gettable. Grocers say that old bills and accounts that have stood on tho books for five years are being paid op. Now, debts like those have been outlawed, and when the revival restores accounts to the bookkeeper that have been placed beyond the pale by common law, something has happened to change the debtor, Thine millions of people are inter- ested 111 the things of the soot At ;vi tight t he sell° olh ouses and churehes are lighted up and all the people begin to put on their decent garments and come together. Cont - 1111111 (((15 have beea transformed The public houses have been emptied, no move arrests' on Sunday through drunkenness and brawling, the 1101011 men and the nonunion men have re- turned to brotherliness—no more poverty arid inteniperance. A policemen in Cardiff told a Lon- don editor who had come up to Wales that the only occupation he bad left was to tell the people the wny to the churches, while a judge has announced that if the present meetings should continue the 1011100' i1111111 would be made permanent and that all social ills would be cured. The movement, therefore, has WOULD -WIDE ASPECTS. No well-read man will be surprised at 1110 social influence of the Welsh eevival, Every great gain for so- ciety has come through a, religious movement. Long ago Mr. Gladstone commented on this fact. Ile told the house of commons that, they must remember that legislators Were simpty registers of public Sentiment —Imen who recognized what society whiled and put that recognition into terms of law. Back of all the poli- ticel movements lies a religious im- pulse. For the "soul of all eefoem is the reform of the soul." i11 re- viewing society's progress the golden steps on which we rise are steps dug by revival movements. By a great religious awakening Moses lifted the people to the recognition of one Gott. P1101 gavo the world theise,. By a greal religious revival Elijah lifted the Philistines out of their orgies Into a worship of God as spirit and intellect, ily a great revival move- ment Jesus 011i7ist launched Christi- anity and the 1'. (0101011 on the Mount. With an awakening of Florence and a stirring of Cleemany Savene.rola and Luther brought in the new eras. The story of England's liberty cunt political institutions is the story of her revivals. The revival under Bede gave 110 the beginniim' of the politi- cal MoVement, The 'Cistercian revi- val gave the magna charta in the twelfth( century. The revival under ;the friars gave the first, parliament in the thirteenth century. Wickliffe's revival gave the peasants' revolt and the neW land laws. Tyndal's 10'. (111 brought the reformation. The great Puritan revival led to the founding of New Eve:land abroad 011(1 to the overthrow of King Charles and the doctrine of the "-divine right of kings" at home. John Wesley's movement gave England the urn of reform and the triumph of deinoera- ey. 1 listorians 11lsOJohn :Richard Green, in his "(-history of the English People," tell us that every -one of England's political gains was achieved by religious leaders through these great national awakenings. The philosophy of the revival is very simple. in the winter time flowers ate raised in the conserva- tory. Each blossotn is expanded by the hothouse atmosphere. :But when the summer comes 11 11 is different:. in May the south wind blows softly, but the south Wind does not blow for one snowdrop and anemone but Lor all. 'Phe spirit of summer is a dislutereeted lover; to every sleeping ;seed elm comes, BIDDING IT AWAKE. She calls every root forth to its best estate. Ten million sleepers waken. The whole land Waves with grass and grain from sea to sea. The growth is in the air. Not otherwise is it for the nation. In the fifteenth cetitury,art in Italy Was a universal contagion. The whole lite was charged with enthusi- aarn foe the beautiful, When a great picture was completed the crowds lifted the artist to thole shoulders toed with ahouts bort him through the 51).0(45. The youth who had the elightest germ of the beaetlful hint was fired, ethengthened aed Then the great lifted to full power. impulse for discoVery followed after Columbus. Twenty years ago the i 111 reilse .cif invention Wept over the people of the earth, The church Can- not elnim a monopoly of the Word "sevival." There was revival of loathing in the fourteenth century, revival of fine arta in the fifteenth celitnrY, a reldaal of philosophy in the sixteeoth century, a revival of ;patriotisansend liberty in the eigh- teollth nentilrY, and nose there is a revival of religion in the faventieth con they, Twenty yens% ago the tides of faith flamed te) be Obblag tlway. Now the tides; neo coming like a flood, The sieimdists Bite Sir Oliver Lodge aro 14 becoming preachers: Tho phllose. phalli are becoming 50.01,0 mai pro- phets. Men have discoveeed Ott the sins; of the world 11 re toffeearable. Without the help of God they are 11116(010 lo their problems, The 1101.. entie(s flirt) that their theories as - sumo the pteeenee of a worldanincl. Students of events say that this world -mind is also a will who gives progress to history. Lovers of their kind find in the fatherhood of God the sanction foe the brotherhood of man. If God is our father and all men are one brethren and the earth Is the family house, why should no I ell live in lance and brotherhooll? If all brothers loved each other there would he no more poveety, nor war, nor law collets, nor prisons. If men realized God in daily life they would change earth into a kind of heaven. All men are beginning to feel, there- fore, that before we go any further We had better "get right with Clod," became good friends with Jesus Christ, straighten out the eecord 011(1 do unto othees as we would have others do unto us. We cannot get the golden deeds out of leaden fai Newell Dwight Hillis, Pastor Ply- mouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y, THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 5. "Jesus at the Feast of Taber- naeles." Golden Text, John vii., 46. Verse 87. The Last Daye—The last or eighth clay of the festival, which like the nest day was a Sabbath. ancl Wierefore a holy clay (Lev. xxiii., 89). Tho Great Day.—Great eejoleing being combined with sabbatical rest front all servile labor and secular employment. A day of "holy con- vocation on which the usual cere- monies of the preceding days of the fast were nued," 'Knowo also ea "the Day of the Great Ho- ses ' Weans.° with shouts of "Hosanna" a circuit Was on that day made seven times round the great altar in the temple court; and "the Day of Willows and of Dealing, the Brancluw," .because, the dwelling in booths having been discontinued with the close of the prectalieg day, the leaves were shaken from the willow houghs and the palm Wenches beaten in pieces beside the altar on this eighth day. If Any Man Thieste—A not uncom- mon experienre, especially among the poorer classes in Jerusalem at this season of the Year, Witt Only Iwo perennial springs in the al 0 vicinity of the city, no rata hav- ing fallen for seve10 whole months 01. more, 0.0c1 most of the cisterns being either dry or the water in them 11,0 longer fit to drink. Every morning duriog the seven days Pr000ning a sacred libation or water from the fountain of 17110001 h.aci been poured out before the temple altar of burnt offering from to 901(1010 pitcher while 'the assembled mut Dude elvarderk "With joy shall ye dewy water out Of the wells of eelvation.'"Dhe ab- sence of this usual ceremony on the eighth (My, and the general scarcity of water in the eitY, would tend to make these motals of Jesus all the more impressive. 88. As the Scripture Itiath Not in any one definite paseage, but in thie general import of a number of passages, as, for example, Isa. Lv., 1; Joel iii„ 1 8, and Zech. 1; xiv., 8, From Within Him. --From 1115 in- nermost heart or soul. In this sense the word holly, is frequently used in the Old Testainent (comp. Job. xv., 33; Prose 8). Ilhers of Living Water.—To the inhabitant of 'Palestine a symbol of an unlitnited abundance of that which was most essential cunt preci- ous. Lining water like that fro111 the spring of Siloana—ever fleets and inexhaustibly—is in marke01 coateast with the water stored in cisterns.. But d'his Spoke He of the Spirit. —A parenthetical explanation of the evangelist john its writing illany Sidars after Pentetiost, but he am never forget how on that clay these weeds of Jesus were wonderfully ful- filled, Because (Testis Was Not Yet Glori- tiod..—Not yeL as:ended; into glory, until which time the Spirit could not be given to the disciples as the Paraclete anci representative of Christ In carrying on the work of his kkagdom among men. 40. Some.—The natneval is left to be sepplied in the original, ae the italies of the text Indicate. These Wortle.—Soine texts, though n.ot the best, novo rend, this woad or saying. The Prophet.—The prophet referred tO irt DMA. Xviii„ 1.11, 41, Others; said, • .701010 sett -- Both verbs are itt the imperfect tense, denoting eepented action.: Gthers kept on Sayitlg, . . some kept, 011 saying. Dalt the Christ Come Out of (Ina 11.1(tee—.1hhn does not stop to comet the Mistaken inference (hot Jens came front Galilee (wee born theae). 'Fre presupposes that his readers are well acqintinted with the facia: in the rase. Of flu. Seed of David, —i''Jeliovali hall) Sworn tinio David 111 truth; •Of the fruit of the body will T set 1115011 Illy throne" (Pett• 1.1). "Ileholtl, the (1094; 017010, 140)1 11 .le- liovnla that 1 will raise unto fervid LI richl eops 1'1'111101, and 11, 1'01041 ns 11inv" Jer, sail) :;, 1"i.01111 tollent.-- ',lint thou, Bethlehem leoll rat b ab Which e Mlle to he 01)1)015 the thmisands or ,j11,1a11, (1)1) (,1 they shall one 011110 foeth 1111 1 1) tee !lint 15 lo be enter 1)1 1)11'.) .11 tel;IMP goings; tooth (0.(,), from of old, from everlasting" (Nile. v., 2). The Village hero David Ws. -1u 1 Sam. xv1., 1-12 Will befound the account of Sainuel's visit to liellde- bem and of his there 011lilll Ing David Um ellepherd hay to be king over israel. "Now David was the son of that Mph vat MU:, of Bailie- hten-jueittit, W110130 11101110 W 54 .1e55e." 4 3, A Dthision.—Greek "sehlsina," a rent it itiesension; from whica comee our word "schism" (comp. also John Ix., 10; 1 001'. 1., 1(); xi-. 189. la Malt. ix., 10 and Mark 11., 21. lite same Orval,. v:occi Is used i(1 its original SeltSe or phyNiow, "aworse rent iH mude." 44, Alai Soirea—Of the itutItIttrile, not of the (Alkyls mentioned in the next verse, would have taken him and carried hill) 00 their own in- spo nsibi 11 ty before the Sanbodrin, the tribunal before which au relig- ious pretenders were summoned. 45, The 1311101118 Therefore.—These seat out, by the chief priests and Phaelsees for the Special purpose of taking him (verse 82). Chief attests and Pharlseee.—lareen- bees of the Sandhedrin, which 111101110 to have been in session at the time awaiting the return of the officers to apprehend Jestm. Why did Ye not tieing' 1.111111.—To put a stop to the repally inercasing popularity of this rabbi hem Gali- lee seelned of more Importance to them than their other duties even on this great feast d109.-11 remark: - able tribute to the personality and influence of Jesus., 40, Never Man so Spalte.—A re- markable testimony to give heror? men elhaneelvee tomatoes and public speakers of dint I not ion, and 0110 which must have Men -evert the hat- red of Giese 111011 for Jesus. John clouletless recorded only a small pert of what Jesus actually said on this occasion. DALAI LANA THERE, Chinese Troops and 200,000 Peo- ple Greet Mil. correspontlent of the Warsaw Gazette, writing from Urga, the Capital of Mongolia, says that the Dalai Lama of Thibet has a1'riv0d. there with a suite of severed thou - Sand persons. Ffis baggage and that of his suite was courted by 200 cam- els. The people of Urga had been expecting his arrival, and, notwith- etaittling the severe frost, the Chinese troops and 200,000 citizens went out of town for several miles to meet him, His arrival was an- nounced to the rest, of the popula- tion by a salvo of artillery, and he took up Ms quarters in a palace spe- cially prepared fee him, where all the holy mea and teachers of Urga 11811011)' hold thef0 meetings, and which contains the moat famous Buddhist temples. Many thousand of pilgeims are arriving from all parts of Mongolia, from the countey beyond Lake Baikal, and 10010 the Asktrititham 51e911e5, to do him homage. Among them is Brettuyete, the chief Lama of Eastern Sibetaa, who has obtained the permission of the Russian authorities Lo join pilgrims. Althongh the etiquet of the Dalai. Lama's court forbids him to receive Europeans, he has given O long audience to the Russian QM- eial sent to him by tho Consul. Various repotas are current among the Mongols and Bulyats as to the Dalai Lama's plans for the future. Some say that he will proceed to the Goose Lake, where is the chief temple of the Lamm( in the teems - Baikal, others that ho is going to St. Petersberg, ANTIITAIeS AT PLAY, Polar bears enjoy a bath for the sake of cleataineee as well as for swimming and hunting., At a certain zoological garden, when the polar boar's bath WEIS being* filled with fresh water, it would stoed with its mouth open, letting the water run through its jaws, and when the bath was full would play all kin.ds of tricks, revelling in 11110 water. One of its entails was Lo float on its back in the water, and then catch hold of its heels with its forepaws, and roll oVet7 in a ball. 11 would also Lunt over backward on the edge, Sad fall in with a resounding splash. Monkeys never wash or bathe; though they have, as a rule. every chance to chi so, Poseibly experi- ence has -taught them to be afraid of crocodiles, which are meths,* general- ly distil buteil 011 0110 11key-11 au 111011 rivers, it, Is Said that a 11111111500 of Indian monkeys watehed a patty of 1..1uropeans in a boat, who washed their hands and brushed their teeth. Next clay the monkey5 mere e11700 to come to the river -side and go througt the foten of wasting itch.; hands and of brushing their teeth with hits of stick, 'The 11101' will sit with only Rs; head out of the water on ri hlazing hot clay in an frstlim jungle. Sir Sunitiel Bolter, after "beating" for a tiger forthe greater part, of the day, found and shot one in this position. DIS.H.ES AS HAMMERS, Cups and saucers, and other do- meetie ware, in nppeithance resemb- ling (tine, but entively free from the fragility of the latter, aro now being produced in Belgium11. is stated that clishes made o' the new matini- al can, without breaking, be thrown about on stone floore, and eve11 in an enmegency utilized as hammers to drive nails with. 4 A new match -malting machine is capable of producing 50,000 boxes Of Matches 111 ten 110015, Impoeunious Mine, Am - nada, and you will betreated like 1411 0115('l." Wealthy Maidell—"Yes, sOpposo so, Nothing 'to at, and less to Wear, 110, that* yoll." Guest—"A111 Then you are a metal - clam What instriunent do you play?" Mtlflielart--"The first fide &es' Ills Wife (ensplittileallya— "Bet only 111 tile 0'0110st:e14,1" 4 Tht, Home 3 '.13 (11111(18 11 bIlt? Burstitut in from school 00 play, This; is what the childeen 8a91 Teooping, crowding, big or small, On the -threshold, in the hall— Joining 111 the colietedit cry, Ever as the days 90 by— "Where's mother?" From the weary bed of pain. This same question 0011105 agal 10 From the boy with sparkling eyes, Bearing home his earliest prizm From the bronzed and bearded son Perils) past and honors won:— "Whore's mother'?" ;Mother with untiring hands Al the post of duty stands; I'a tient, seeking not her oWn, Anxious for the good alone Of the children as they cry, Ever as the (lays go by— "Where's mother?" ---- T:EFT ()VERS. The cave and diepoeition of left- overs le an important and telling factor of domestic 0001101117, so eas- ily can 01 woman prove the truth of the gibe that a 1) ()Wan can llIVOW OUt a teaspoon faster than a, man can pia in with a shovel. In the present unsettled condition or domestic service, it is rare to 1I01d O servant whose pereonal interest in her temporary employer's mantle goes toy further than the matter of her own wages and evenings ottt. "Waste not, want not." is applied nowhere and means nothing to the majority of cooks, peripatetic and not "standing on the ceremony of going." but "going at once." There- fore the sour milk is theown out, cut bread aeCUMulates and molds, cold ceivals and the various odds and mule of cooked and uncooked meals and vegetables heap up the garbage lunt. The mistress must bear these thinga in mind, supervise the gather- ing up of the "fragments that aro left," give orders as to their dis- posal, and see to it that these or - dere are carried out. The woman who cooks in 11005011 for her household has here a broad field for the exereise and development of any special talent ahe may pos- sess along this line—a field air de- lig‘htful creative work, Where one may feel the thrill of the artist in her fingers tie thuly as the pianist or the painter of pictures. Also she has her rewards. She sits at the table and hears the praises of muf- fins or pancakes sung on tWery side. She knows they owe a large part of thole co nstructi on to yesterday m.orning's 1110511, patties filled with remnants of Senday's roast chicken, and a pudding contrived of sponge cake, like the "porridge 11 the pot"—nine clays old. Through her practice with "left- overs" 0 woman comes to a full rea- lization of the ituportance of keeping tip the pantry supplies along the lino of condiments, sauces and season- ings of various kinds, vinegars fla- vored with mint, tarragoo, garlic, etc., are most useful. Catsups, cap- ers, olives, herbs, rind flavoring oil or extraels are the greatest help in cfressing cold viands for a second presentat i on . Salad dressing is an all -the -year round indispensable, for a salad sup- plies an exile comae for a meal, in 1011 11110)0pc0108l comnany-criele with slight expense of time and trouble, provided the dressing' is ready for use. Dare IS the pantry, low the larder, which does not show forth the wherewithal for a salad—that de- lightful i provioat ion from "ler L- overs." The care of dripping is not known at all in many housoholds. The surplus rot from. merits, skimmings from soutis, etc., make quite 11,11 ae- 011n1.1.11 at i On in tile 01111011', 00e11 ill Clarlflod drippings small faint lies. aro much more wholesome than lard. By the aid of a can of lye, and ac- cording to the clireetions 11101 001), tile saved up fats, othevalse thrown away, may be converted into excel - tent hard soap. Instead of throwing away the eold coffee, It may be stiffened with gela- tine, steained and molded, and when tinned out and served 'with sweeten- ed whipped cream, Eurniattes a des- sert aseeptable to most palates, The .1111(0 Or calmed fruit may also make the basis' of gelatine puddings, or thickened With A little coen sterch, may be set.ved warm with hot steamed or baked pudtliegs. A rich fruit syrup Is like honey, a de- licious; accompaniment to hot grid- dle cakes and waffles. Dry bits ot cheese can be USed to atitmlitape in many other ways, be - Stiles the well-known methods of preparing baked 11Ine0r0 1.11 Sa nth WieheS, Or crackers', grated ovee rag) or scalloped potatoes, it suits the taste of many. It may be mixed With salad dressing, after It is grat- ed, formed into small 1)0110, and served with the salad, Small bits of cold 10001, or a sau- cerful of (nuntoil peas, left from 0110. ner, make a. heartier dish of the breakinsf, omelet, by adding Mum the eggs are set In the pan, and then folding over, Let the tale.. tress daily inspect her paniey Ma:Wes and tee-Imx, if she i5 (1011» 51110111110)1i( in her endeavor to inter wisely and welt the affairs; of hethousehold. The following reeipos will be found useful and oconoracat, reom equal quantity of cut celery, line a dish with lettuce, 811 101111 the mix - tura, and pour over a mayonnaise dressing; sprinkle with capers. Hain Pe.t1,'ie5-4.1110 plat cooked Ilan). chopped line, mix with a11 equal amount of bread er1.111113S Wei: With 211.111t, fill thiS int° buttered gem ;pans, break one egg On Lop of each, sprinkle with bits of butter and pep - Per, bake until brown. l'otato Puff,—Add to two teacups cold, nembed potatoes, one-half cup milk, pinch salt, tablespoon butter, two tablespoons 110 Ur, and tWO eggS, 'mitten to a froth. Mio thoroughly, put lato a buttered pudding dish, e1110.011 the top with butthr, and bake a golden brow 11. The succees of the putf depends upon havin9 the eggs beaten exceedingly tight. Bread O1ni7lette.-111ennble a cup of stale bread crumbs, and soak them In half a teaeupful of hot water. Beat, smooth, add teaspoon of butter and half teaspoon c)f salt, then live well-boal eggS. Butter a Shallow pudding dish, pour in the mixt:me, aml bake about ten min- utes. Serve at ()nee, in the same dish, sending 11 to table with a nap- kin pinned around it, Orated cheese is a nice additicm lf relished. Jelly Pudding.-4-loak one pint bres,clertnnbs in one quart milk, add yolks of three eggs, rind and juice of' one lemon, two Nips of sagar; bake, and when cool, spread the lop thick- ly with currant jelly, and rover with a meringue of the egg whites, lent cold, with cream whipped or plain. THE FAMILY S77IAMSTRESS. Home dressninkers who have trou- ble in fittlag theniseives are advised by a practice.1 modiste to buy one and one-half yards of strong lining and cut a perfectly fitting bodice pattern to coma ave or six inches below the waist 130110 and sLiteh it as if for an ordinary chess. Instead af hooks and eyes, tieW to- gether down the front, then stuff the lining Drinly With sawdust, shaping it as the worker proceeds. Sew a lining across the bottom so as to stand on a table; add a stock col- lar at neck with a piece of lining across the Lop. The model is most (awful for draping and t)'lllllflillg blouses, also for rating collars and yokes. Innumerable little hints are given by this sante dressmaker which are valuable for one who isn't entirely proficient in the art of sewing, and hasn't the experience of olclee house- keepers, One valuable littla sug- gest ion when sewing on buttons is, before you lay the button on the garment; put the thread throngh 80 that the knot will be on the right side. That leaves it under the but- ton and prevents it feorn being ironed and torn away. Before you begin sewing lay a large pin, or if a mnn's coat button, a match or something the same size, so that the threads go OVer the pin. After the sewing is completed draw nut the pin ov the match nnel wind the thread round and round the thread beneath the button. This makes a stein to sustain the pulling mid wear of the button hole, and Presents a much better appearance when the garment is buttoned up. When sewing black cotton materi- als, such as Italian cloth, sateen and black prints, always use silk, as the black sewing 0111 1011 turns rusty with wear and washing, and 'spoils the appearance of the articles on which it is used. Another admirable suggestion which many professional dressmakers are not aware of is that it is al- ways best to thread the needle be- fore cutting the cotton to insane threading the right mut otherwise it may tangle, Out your cotton; tlo not bite nr break it. Use the right size needle, and suitable cotton for your material. HINTS FOR THE HOME. Zinc is best cleaned with hot, sleepy water, then polished with kerosene and coal ash, When .boiling Hee add some lemon - juice to the water, as it causes the Ti1111 to separate nicely and makes it white, When making cogre scatter a pinch of salt over the grits. This win bring out the flavor In a vory pleas- ing way. Always dry your collars by the fire till ;stilt, and you will tied that the starch will then Acted propeely, ;When whisking tin egg be sure that the basin, knife, etc., are perfectly dry, and then you will have no dif- ficulty in getting it to a froth. When you have fried fish dry It in front of the tire, oa sheets of cook- ing paper, before serving. This will remove any superfluous fat. To clear a (raven pipe pour 1101011 it hot water, to which plenterof salt has been added, This will do the work more rapidly Gum water alone. An inexpensive tabltacentre can bo made of crinkled paper with a frilled edge, the 0(10110 being orna men 1(111 With horseshoes of holly leaves, To take etains out of an umbrella, (Basotho some rock anemonin in a. little boilieg water and rub the spots weeny with it, usieg a piece of dark cloth in 1)0(7100011(.0 to flan- nel, Clean sultanas quickly no ((Aimee: Place the fruit a floured cloth, Tie the ends of the cloth, and shake about well for five Minutes, tvhen the stalks will be Mend to have fallen MT and the fruit will be cleats and ready fer putidinge, LO V tilt' SACI tied OM, A Russian, sullering Dern 0weak chest, was obliged io grow 0 very long beard. Unfortunntely, he fell in love with a, damsel who refesed 1.0 manes 111111 unless be became clean- shaven. Mottoes to please her, he oils odds and earls of previous meals, egroca jo file sacrifice, coal The wed. they Provide (Belles* good enough to (nag 30010 1,1000, pao nem, day hp Set hoforo a king nna ranet 1.1 01111 (lied of ‚1'111'1l111 ((1117, graco (any be said with truly thank - 1(11 Iteerte; Miss' 1 Im10—"Whet sort of (tap le, Hain Salado—Take one cup cold jack Tiuggios?" Miss Swifl.—."Well, boiled 11010 which has 1)1701) clamed he is elicit might be termed an ()s- will a Mile 01 the bat, mix with an. dilatory idePithaaniae." A HOUSE OF WONDERS -4:•+-0. OCCURRENCES ON AN ENG- LISH rARTE. Dinner Plates Change From Shelves and Tubs Empty Them. selves, Mr. White, occupant of the "be - lei Wiled" faral at Binbrook, Lincoln- shire, England, gave a London Ex- press representative receutly an ac- count 1 the most recent extraordin- ary occurrences, His story was cor- roborated by his wife, children, mother and servants. When Mrs. While smv bottles top - 011, f I His First Battle , ..1,* ..(, ., 1 ;• li, 4ese•SeaSa-eaaa.),(Seaeaseetea.ealis..eaeateesea.s. crafts?" the eergeant aelted. "aroll "So You are one of the new re - come just at the right Um. Wei shall see a groat battle before we . ere two days older." pling over one by ono and falling Ito Isom:Asti took the rifle, the from a shelf to break on the tiled knapsack, and the haversack which floor, she called her husband and the were banded him without speaeing servants, and they also watched the word, All the other soldiers around completion of the astonishing sPecta-' him were singing and cracking jokes, de. "Are you brave or are you a cow - Two doeen bottles leisurely went ard?" he had asked himself. "Aro to 'destruction in this way. Some of , your nerves strong enough to stand . them contained paraffin and the the test? is your pride strong others oil. 1 enough to conquer your physical fear. A dead rabbit hung in the dairy) and keep you where you are placed, mysteriously transported itself to atal or will you be railed a coward by; other r00411, where it was found lyingi your comrades after the first bat - beside a, beer barrel. • tle?" STISA.NCE PHENOMENA. The first shot rang out. The roar In the dairy three strings of home- of the artillery and the rattling fire made sausages were bung on a line,1 of thousands of rifles made Komatsu but refused to remain.there, and af-e feel as if the world was comitig to ter being hung for the thii;c1 time an end. they fell and broke in small pieces. ! "Keep quiet! ICeep cool there, A dozen large dinner plates moved, you recruit. What the aevil is the from a high shelf and were cleposit-: matter with you?" ad unbroken in a large earthenwareIt was the voice of tho sergeant, dish. Another dish of milk set for, who gave Komatsu a slap on tho cream overturned, and a large pot hock, The 'melte" had waved his of cream ready for the churn Por-' cap in the air and shouted "1301.i - formed a 81101100 feat. 1 zail" but it was like a dream to When the family were having tone, him. He saw his comrades smile water poured into the kitchen from! and laugh. The enemy was at - under the storehouse door until the tooaing, and everybody threw him - floor was completely flooded. Inves-1 sou down, seeking cover behind rocks ligation showed that a large flat-. i and bushes—everybody but one, 310 - bottomed tub had emptied itself. 1 matsu remained standing, rifle in of water,'' "The tub hctd 01117 been half ful!1 "Fall down t "1).1'1111100, you 1)1100 1" said Mr, tiVie1(1101180.1 hand, waiting for the c-nemy. more water came into shouted a thousand voices, but he than would have filled it. Where it, all came from we cannot tell.I aparidly felt that the sergeant threw t] m down. no attention to them, and a har not superstitious, but I am puzzled . The first attack had been beate(0 off when Komatsu again came to 111%4 cfomi ounaddehsifnisell held by two of "Is it over?" Komatsu asked. "Over, you fool! It has ,,,1,,just and not try to cut Kurapation s whole army to pieces all alone?" "I am no coward. I will prove that I am no coward," Komatsu about these happenings. If I had not seen some of them I would not be- lieve that they occurred. OTHER MARVELS. "I saw three large biscuit tins which were on a shelf fall to the floor, together with a chine of bacon begun. Can.'t you get some Henze) and three hams 101)1)11 had been thor- oughly dried." Up to date Mr. White has had 200 fowls killed in a most remarkable manner. Their necks from the head whispered to himself as the lines of to the breast wore skinned, and the the enemy came /tearer and nearer. windpipe pulled out. This slaughter has beegoing on continuously, It was a terrible onslaught, irresls- n though the foal house has been tible in its force, and as the Japan - watched night and day. Mr, White ese army gaVe way, first slowly and hos0010only two dozen fowls on the then faster and faster, the recruit fam rushed forward, waving hie cap into Ones to "lay the witch" have bean the very midst of the enein7. received front all over the country, Suddenly everything turned black and Mr. White, has accepted that of before his eyes. Ills brain. was in a Mr, John Dunn, of Grimsby. BULLOCH rouGET FOUR LIONS -- Little Incident of Commercial Life in Central Africa, Supplying the Lancashire mills with cotton from British Central Africa aould seem, from the follow- ing incident related by the London Daily Mail correspondent at Man - tyre, Central Africa, to be a task of some difficulty Tame waggons from Blantyre re- he was killed. If he had lived and tUrning from Ukate, on the shore of we had won the fight he would sure - Lake Nyassa, after unloading cot- ly have won a commission." ton there, camped at night in a cot- So this was the way they spoke of , ton clearing. Dining the nigbt four him, Ito Komatsu, who was stillai whirl and he felt nothing more. He persuaded himself that it was night and that the battle was over. Alter,. a while he heard voices! he felt kind hand.s. Seize him by the shoulders and fret. "It is one of the new recruits who came yesterday. Had we had ntore , like him we should not be prisoners now. He fought like a demon." "Yes, I never saw the like of it," another voice replied, "I saw him seize one of their standards before lions stampeded the draught oxen nnd Ilnally surrounded an old bull at the head of a gully) The bull fought fiercely, and by its bellowings ;trench and cried like a woman. brought back ten other oxen to its bad remained on his post; had load- ed and Med and had been the first ; to attaelt the enemy at close quer- tees. 131111 what did they say about O standard? tIe did not quite re- member—and still he thought— "And 11010 he lies there among the others)." said the one 'Vele°, and they left him for dead. W0171001115 whether he was a coward , or a brave Man. He had not run away. had not hidden himself in a help. The native drivers, finding themselves unable to drive orl the lions went away for help. The cattle boys were absent for about, three hours, and were amazed to find on their return that the old bull, though terribly lacerated, was still on Rs feet, and lighting game- ly to the lase. Shortly after their return the brave animal fell dead. The natives succeeded, however, in driving off the lions with Ore brands and old guns. On the following evening Mr. Fras- er, the agent of the African Lakes Corporation, determined to sit np neer the 50000 of the conflict ill the hope tha1 the lions would return to the carcase of the dead bull. An at- tack of fever had prevented his bring- ing help to. the natives the previoun night. He found a suitable tree near the spot; Ile had only just settled hhnself W11e11 four lions appeared and beg -rot to devour the rand animal. Taktng careful ahn, Eraser kilted ono lion and woumled two, which, however, made then; escape, but were found dead in the bush next morn. ing, Thes Mr. Fraser bagged three lions in a single night. AN UNDERGROUND CITY. To read of an inhabited 8111110)0019 0041 city seems strange, yet a piece Or this character actually exists in Galicia, Austrian Voland, awl with a Population, too, of ovn. 1,000 .men, Wonlen, and children, it is called the City of tho Salt Minos, and 114.1S a town -hall and a church, This latter has several atatuee, alt Of which are carved from rock salt, 8011CNTIVIC NURSINS, An ingenious Swiss mechanic claims to have invented an automa- tic baby -nurse. The eppaintus is attached to a cradle, If the baby cries, air Waves cause. specially -ar- range WireS 1.0 operate a phonograPh which el ngs; a lullaby, Whilo simul- taneously clockwork is releaM sed ut rocks; the cradle. When the crying maws the Wirt) falle to vilernie and the Male stops rockiug. --4.--- Thiabttna—"Wake 1111, wake tell The house is On Marla." Wife Gm- ploringly)—"011, sittre My Mlle 1100- 11e1, lltinband (determine(1- ly)—"I will. lt. cost mom than anything elso 111 1110 house." ALCOHOL AND SHOOTING. A remarkable series of experiments has been carried mit ln tbe Swedish army to tteet the effects of alcohol on rifle marksmaiiship. A battalion of 500 men 1008 selected, and doses of alcohol, ranging from strong to week and from immediately before the practice to long intervals, wore a,chninistered to the num under COM, clition8 Celt:Mated to test the effects of liquor on nerve and muscle, Ta the result, even a moderate cpmatity was found to affect injuriously both eye and baud, and the experiments, as a 1011010, a ere StatOd to 130 great- ly hi favor of total abstinence. APAaTES1.1 :KNOTS. The Japanesehave no use for buta tons, bueldes, or hooks and cyos. Cord serves every purpose of fasten- . Mg, and furnishes artistic possibilt- ies seemingly Without end. The Jiapanese have hancireds of knotS. Some are (IS Old as the time when history wag recorded by ti, malts Of knots, just as it was in China and Peru before writing WaS 1.10701.11.101t 'there are 1101)0115 of 10110(11 111 commo11 tend ceremonial usage, anti theee every Japatiese child can tM. To 11411110 only a feat, there are p110111 - blossom, cherrygdossom, iris, eltry- semehtemunt, and pine -tree knote. There are Fejlyaula knots, turtle and stork knots, the "old man's," Which in easy te tie, the "old wo. men's," and rnoty othorg. GIOAN'110 GOLDFISH. A goldfish of eatraordinary pro- portions" Was taken by 'Me. GeOrge Ilullerwell, of Witilaton, in ;Noah.- urobeelated, Vargland, from a POW upon. his 'Wm, Tho fish; which Waft liberated in the pond ion 7001'5 ago, Weighed 111b, 8 oast. 11 00 15000 dtepatelleel tel a loual nutscione,